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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 29 – October 29, 2024 823 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 44 · Issue 303 Get it by email ↓
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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The Internet Archive is back online

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 28 stories

  1. Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power

  2. The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair

  3. Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth

  4. FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

Show 10 more
  1. Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

  2. Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds

  3. YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup

  4. Goldman and Apple 'illegally sidestepped' obligations to credit-card customers

  5. The AI Investment Boom

  6. AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO

  7. Ibis: Federated Wikipedia alternative

  8. Blue whale skeleton at New Bedford museum still oozing oil

  9. Don't let dicts spoil your code

  10. Adventures in algorithmic trading on the Runescape Grand Exchange

Sports 32 stories

  1. Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

  2. World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating

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  1. Show HN: Open-source Counter-Strike-like game

  2. Show HN: Flyon UI – Tailwind Components Library

  3. I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

  4. Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published

  5. Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces

  6. Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying

Technology 625 stories

  1. Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris

  2. ATL: A layer to run Android apps on Linux

  3. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024

Show 9 more
  1. Bop Spotter

  2. Starship Flight 5 license issued by FAA

  3. Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC's click-to-cancel rule

  4. 1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor

  5. Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up

  6. Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

  7. First images from Euclid are in

  8. Busy Status Bar

  9. Helping wikis move away from Fandom

Entertainment 54 stories

  1. Meta Movie Gen

  2. AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

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  1. Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo

  2. Show HN: I built an app to use a QR code as my doorbell

  3. Show HN: HTML for People

  4. Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate

  5. Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

  6. Show HN: RF Hunter – Find hidden cameras and other devices

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